The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Years before Thomas Middleditch was an award-nominated star of HBO’s Silicon Valley, he was just another comedian hustling for fame in Chicago, and in 2006, he didn’t imagine that his rap video mocking McDonald’s chicken mcnuggets would amount to as much as it has. Because McDonald’s bought the video Middleditch …
How have we not talked about this summer’s DirecTV ad featuring Eli Manning with a “Bad Comedian Eli Manning” alter-ego yet? Roll the clip!
Just a few months after Kentucky Fried Chicken revived its famous founding father, Colonel Sanders, via Saturday Night Live‘s Darrell Hammond, the fast-food chicken giant has pulled a switcheroo, swapping Hammond for his former SNL colleague, Norm Macdonald. “Other than not quite looking like him, his voice being different, and …
This week, State Farm insurance unveiled its final tribute in partnership with Saturday Night Live‘s 40th anniversary, just in time for tonight’s season finale of SNL. The Coneheads — Beldar (Dan Aykroyd), Prymaat (Jane Curtin) and daughter Connie (Laraine Newman) — re-enact a currently running State Farm commercial featuring the …
You’ve seen plenty of comedians appear in State Farm TV commercials with Green Bay Packers QB Aaron Rodgers, but tonight, you’ll start seeing a comedian without Rodgers, but who looks pretty darn close to him. Meet Tom Wrigglesworth! Wrigglesworth is a comedian from Sheffield, England, who was a finalist for …
These first five promos for FX’s The Comedians don’t really tell you much about plot or character development, but they do let you know that stars Billy Crystal and Josh Gad are, indeed, comedians. In a new series about comedians. Making a comedy show. And since it’s about comedy, some …
Is this the end for the E*Trade talking baby, voiced by comedian Pete Holmes since the 2010 Super Bowl? That’s what this new TV ad, which began airing Thursday night during the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament (aka March Madness) suggests. Perhaps it was the singing sidekick, that darned cat, that …
Which popular sitcom cast from the late 1980s and early 1990s isn’t reuniting for a Super Bowl commercial on this Groundhog Day?! That’s a fairer question, now that we know that the three father figures of ABC’s Full House — Bob Saget, John Stamos and Dave Coulier — have reunited …
One of Montreal’s New Faces of comedy from the 2012 Just For Laughs festival found success even before leaving the festival last weekend. Josh Rabinowitz has been tapped by Apple as its newest TV spokesman, and ads featuring Rabinowitz as an “Apple Genius” began airing over the weekend, during broadcasts …
Nick Kroll’s Comedy Central sketch series, Kroll Show, doesn’t even debut until 2013. But Kroll and his friends already had taped a satirical response to Chick-fil-A, whose owner is so ultra-conservative, he thinks homosexuality is a sin. And he doesn’t open his dumb fast-food stores on Sundays, when any good …
